The Jazz Association of Macon will be hosting their 16th annual Jazz and Arts on Riverdale Festival on Oct. 26. Every year, musicians, artists and patrons gather to listen to music, eat food and celebrate the diverse art culture of Macon. This year, there are four bands on the line up. These bands ...
Recently, rom-com movies have revitalized the genre with films like “Love, Simon” and “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” “Tall Girl” is not one of these movies. Directed by Nzingha Stewart and starring Ava Michelle, Luke Eisner, Griffin Gluck, Anjelika Washington and Sabrina Carpenter, ...
Recently, artist Post Malone has been making another big come-up. Known for his striking facial tattoos and famous song, “Congratulations,” his new album showcases a more sincere and vulnerable side of himself. His third studio album, titled “Hollywood’s Bleeding,” was released at the beginning ...
Christie DeNizio is the most recent artist on display at the McEachern Art Center in downtown Macon. Her exhibit, “How to Fold a Paper Boat,” is full of vibrant, breathtaking, yet simple images made of random objects that still fully grab the audience’s attention. DeNizio has created a world of ...
There’s a dominant religion in the southern United States, and it’s not what you think. It’s college football. Saturdays are the most important Sabbath in the land from September to December, and no Saturdays are bigger than home games. Mercer’s campus truly comes to life whenever the Bears ...
This August marks professor Chelsea Rathburn’s first semester at Mercer as the newest addition to the English department. Rathburn is originally from Miami, Florida, and came to Mercer from Young Harris College in northern Georgia. At Young Harris, she worked the creative writing department alongside ...
“Frozen, Jr.” is taking the stage in Middle Georgia. The junior version of the Broadway musical was made available for production recently. Now that it has been released, Theatre Macon director Richard Frazier has snagged the rights to this popular show. The show has only become available in ...
When people find out I’m a twin, I always get the same questions and reactions. “Oh my gosh, can you feel each other's pain? Can you read each other's minds?” The answer is always no, of course. As we get older, the questions have evolved into more mature versions with the same idea. “Why ...
As astrology has hit the mainstream, from horoscopes in Cosmopolitan to apps like Co-Star and Astro Guide, tarot card readings have also grown in popularity. Tarot readers looking for cards used to be limited to metaphysical shops and certain Etsy stores, but today, major retailers like Urban Outfitters ...
Macon's southern rock scene was forever changed when Capricorn Sound Studios opened for the first time 50 years ago. Once a recording spot for iconic groups such as the Allman Brothers Band and Wet Willie, the dilapidated Capricorn Records building saddened Macon’s rock fans for years. Now the studio ...
The folk-rock group The Lumineers have evolved over the course of their career, and are well known for songs such as “Ho Hey” and “Ophelia.” With their third album, “III,” The Lumineers enter new territory, exploring issues of substance abuse and addiction through nine songs that all connect ...
[sidebar title="Content Warning" align="left" background="on" border="all" shadow="on"] This article contains discussions of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse and suicide. [/sidebar] Rates of mental health problems on college campuses continue to climb, according to a study from ...
This semester, Mercer University’s Auxiliary Services Department began offering a new ID option for students: the digital bear card. In the initial announcement of the offering, Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Ken Boyer said he hoped the new option would bring the community choice ...
Content warning: This article contains discussions of eating disorders. The National Eating Disorders Association hosted its first-ever annual Weight Stigma Awareness Week during the week of Sept. 23-27 under the slogan #ComeAsYouAre. So what exactly is weight stigma? Weight stigma is discrimination ...
Mercer University’s athletics department launched an exciting plan to increase their football game attendance numbers for the 2019 season. Partnering with the Ford Motor Company, Mercer Athletics announced that the university would hold a concert on Black Field before every home game. The series ...
Made famous for her song “Born to Die” and then for “Summertime Sadness,” Lana del Rey has been a household name for almost eight years. Whether you love her music or hate it, Del Rey has carved out a name for herself in the music industry, making her voice distinctly recognizable. Del Rey ...
I am an exchange student at Mercer University, and my home is approximately 3696 miles across the pond in England. So why am I here? What is it like being that far from home? Or, as many like to ask: of all places, why are you in Macon? If I had a dollar for every time I was asked why I was in Macon, ...
Mercer sophomore Faith Reagin said her love for art began when she was three years old. “I loved coloring books. I loved anything that had to do with that,” Reagin said. “I’ve always been a creative person, and I’ve always liked doodling things.” Now, as a college student, Reagin is ...
I started taking birth control after my first ever trip to the gynecologist. I went in looking for answers to the typical questions: Why does penetration hurt? Why does my period feel like the scene in “Prometheus” when Noomi Rapace births an alien? It felt like I only received one question back: ...
Senior Brianna Levin has always had a passion for travel. Even in high school, she heavily considered living abroad. When she came to Mercer, she realized she had a rare opportunity to visit places she had never been before. Levin studied abroad in Cape Town, South Africa, her freshman year, but afterwards ...
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